{"id":21599,"date":"2016-08-23T05:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T09:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21599"},"modified":"2016-10-24T04:55:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T08:55:06","slug":"a-musical-trip-down-memory-lane-with-the-great-johnny-mercer-if-youve-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21599","title":{"rendered":"A Musical Trip Down Memory Lane With The Great Johnny Mercer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Musical-Trip-Down-Memory-Lane-With-The-Great-Johnny-Mercer...-If-youve-ever.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>A Musical Trip Down Memory Lane With The Great Johnny Mercer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever heard &#8220;Moon River&#8221;, &#8220;The Days Of Wine And Roses&#8221;, &#8220;Autumn Leaves&#8221;, &#8220;Hooray For Hollywood&#8221;, &#8220;That Old Black Magic&#8221;, &#8220;Laura&#8221;, &#8220;Something&#8217;s Gotta Give&#8221;, &#8220;Birth Of The Blues&#8221;, &#8220;Jeepers Creepers&#8221;, &#8220;To Marvelous For Words&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m An Old Cowhand From The Rio Grande&#8221;, &#8220;Blues In The Night&#8221;, &#8220;You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby&#8221;, you&#8217;ve heard at least 13 of the hundreds of huge songs he wrote.  <\/p>\n<p>Everybody from Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald to Louis Armstrong, Andy Williams and well&#8230;you name it, have recorded his songs, that still live in our memories. <\/p>\n<p>In this 8 minute clip, Steve Alan and Johnny run through a dozen or more of his songs in a kind of &#8220;sing off&#8221; that will amaze you. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;ve added a new Facebook page to share some of my favorite music from my 50 years in radio and television. It&#8217;s called Ears Of A Generation, so if you like music that makes you feel good, stop in and take a listen at the link below! -Bobby Ellerbee<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Ears-Of-A-Generation-295938424114838\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Ears-Of-A-Generation-295938424114838\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YFT8MixHSE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YFT8MixHSE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YFT8MixHSE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YFT8MixHSE<\/a>Songwriting. legend JOHNNY MERCER performing some of his classics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1067577903279758\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Musical Trip Down Memory Lane With The Great Johnny Mercer&#8230; If you&#8217;ve ever heard &#8220;Moon River&#8221;, &#8220;The Days Of Wine And Roses&#8221;, &#8220;Autumn Leaves&#8221;, &#8220;Hooray For Hollywood&#8221;, &#8220;That Old Black Magic&#8221;, &#8220;Laura&#8221;, &#8220;Something&#8217;s Gotta Give&#8221;, &#8220;Birth Of The Blues&#8221;, &#8220;Jeepers Creepers&#8221;, &#8220;To Marvelous For Words&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m An Old Cowhand From The Rio Grande&#8221;, &#8220;Blues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[806],"class_list":["post-21599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}